Last updated on November 26th, 2025 at 04:35 pm
World Chef – Family Game Review
World Chef is a Family/Simulation game from Socialpoint, first launched in 11th January 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 9,073+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes World Chef Stand Out
Do you like exotic food? Are you more of a burger and fries kind of person? Either way, there's a spot for you in the kitchens of World Chef, the most international cooking game, with chefs and recipes from over 20 nationalities!
World Chef is a happy place where the kitchen never closes, the waiter always has a big smile on his face and the food is so great you should probably play with a bib on.
Open your restaurant, give it a name and decorate it to your taste! Then start cooking world cuisines and serving customers! Your place will soon become so popular you'll have to make it bigger!
Expand your menu with every new international chef: Tacos, pizza, sushi,… The whole world can fit inside one restaurant! The success ladder will lead you to welcoming VIP diners and even catering special events! You will soon master the art of running a top restaurant.
And remember! This is not a fast food joint, take your time to slow-cook your best recipes. Your customers know they will be worth the waiting.
FEATURES:
- Create, decorate and run your own fine dining restaurant!
- Craft exclusive decorations at the Design Studio.
- Buy and trade fresh ingredients and cook increasingly delicious dishes.
- Build yourself a dock, get a boat and start importing exotic ingredients!
- Serve your finest cuisine to customers from all around the world.
- Increase your popularity and see how all the VIPs become regulars!
World Chef is FREE to download and FREE to play. However, you can purchase in-app items for the game with real money. If you wish to disable this feature, please turn off the in-app purchases in your phone or tablet's Settings.
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, World Chef is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Happy customers are essential for a restaurant, so this update includes some polishing, to keep your game running smoothly and your customers coming to your place.
Download & Availability
World Chef is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Love the game we play it on and off but we are really disappointed that you guys didnt leave the special chefs you for different events back in 2018. It will be fun to have them back.
We have been playing this game for years now and we really still like this game.
Great game been playing since childhood but the sos button for normal tables doesnt work and that seems to be a problem for a lot of other players.
If you want to keep this game alive, fix the daggone friend connection error. Instead of hearing and helping customers, you guys just care for your daggone moneybag and release useless updates. Its you, your hands ruined this game.
The game itself is pretty good but why am we waiting so freaking long for dishes to be served and made, it takes the fun out of the game.
Need more challenges and lower cooking times hours to cook is ridiculous 30minutes should be the longest.
Ive been playing this game for years. Our only complaint is having to use diamonds to clear the vineyard and the amount of time it takes to make wine. Ive been making wine everyday for 2 weeks and Im still not done.
Fun and we like this game its cool 10/10.
We love this game so much and have been playing since around 2018 but we really miss the events you could do to unlock chefs. Could you guys bring it back please.
We love this game. But they stopped doing the seasonal chefs and even the special even chefs. Not its just repetitive work. Just fell flat now.
After the latest update, our customers that are waiting in lines disappeared, instead there are only shadows of them and our chef assistants have completely disappeared. Please help us downgrade or show their existence.
This is game is amazing and this was once our childhood game but im kinda disappointed in gem jar somehow cz wdym we cant get any gems if we dont buy the jar.
Its a slow moving game takes forever to expand. Since the last update we cant see the people. And seems like nobody plays anymore which makes it kinda boring.
It is pretty entertaining and addictive, its good to play often or start before you begin your day because at the end your table are ready go serve.
Played this as a kid,now Im an adult and we always had fun playing this game . Its fun.
The events disappeared without any notice hence the chance to win new chefs or other great prizes! You need to find a way to get land expansions without waiting for months to get the necessary tools needed! This game was so enjoyable till suddenly it changed without any notice to players. Dont you think your loyal players derive a heads up? Ingredients needed such as sugar require diamonds on the second use and now you added that to certain other ingredients! Like what gives with this game? Can you provide an explanation? It seems like youve given up on this game.
Game has been around forever and they still have the same ugly graphics and no updated decor. Its a joke compared to other games.
Ive never had any problems or glitches with this game and we love the quality it has we highly recommend.
Its a really fun game to play but its a little hard to get materials like the saw and stuff. Its overall pretty fun.
We like this game as its a satisfying time killer but it has unskippable ad pop ups and unskippable tutorials. The stupid chef doesnt shut up about the tip jar and makes you sit through an unskippable cutscene to tell you about it. Quick get 110 gems for just $7!and then after you dont want to buy it he doesnt shut up about it being full. There are other tutorials he walks you through and he just talks and talks and talks and you cant skip it or click out of it. You can even restart the app, they put you through it AGAIN from the beginning of the tutorial. All the other tutorials are like this also and theres no option to turn off hints/tutorials. After the tutorials he sits in the corner and gives you constant hints on what you need to be cooking. We wish we could just turn him off and enjoy the game. Other than that the setup is okay.
Played for a while and used to love this game. The sos doesnt work half the time as well as the offers, and when your vineyard is full it can take months for someone to come along and help as you get very little chainsaws. Its also very hard to make progress after a while.
We have been on and off with this game for years and its software hasnt change which is good. It is sentimental to play once again with the same graphics and good gameplay. 100% recommend if you love to play tycoon type games.
Favorite game ever just hate the new gem jar we want our gems.
The game is great but the support takes forever to respond and they should have more limited which was sooooo fun and we expected one since today is Memorial Day so please fix it.
Ive been playing this game for a long time, since 2018, and we can honestly say it has a special charm. The graphics are beautiful, the world design is creative, and theres something nostalgic about the experience that keeps pulling us back. Its one of those games that stays in your memory. However, as much as we enjoy it, we believe the game could be even better with some key improvements. The gameplay, while enjoyable, sometimes feels outdated or repetitive. Some features seem unfinished or lacking polish, and a few updates could really bring the experience to life. With more attention to detail, better balance, and maybe a few new features or story elements, this game could easily become a classic. Its already special it just needs that extra touch to shine even brighter.
The game has been bugged for a minute now we stopped playing for like 3 months came back and its still the same. We cant ask for help on our tables. We cant see our friends names or profile pictures. We love this game but its like its never going to get fixed.
We really like this game, Ive played off and on over the years. We have been playing a lot recently and have noticed a lot of glitches. Ive found ingredients in our storage that we cant even buy. For a while guests were requesting foods with lobster. We had no way in getting the lobster so we had to keep canceling their orders. That seems to have been fixed thankfully but there are other glitches. Sometimes when we tap the sauce chef, it wont let us fill the free spots. It just keeps tapping on the sauces already being made. We also think that some of the cooking times are a bit ridiculous. Right now most of our guests are ordering red wine or something made with it. Each red wine takes 4 hours so it takes a very long time to serve each table. We either have to wait with limited tables we can actually serve, or cancel those tables and hope the new ones dont also order red wine. We think the cooking times and orders need to be more realistically portioned. It gets very annoying that we cant serve each table with a realistic amount of time and our storage gets full quickly while waiting for the wines. Getting new parts to upgrade takes a while, we do have each of them at 120 right now but they still fill often. We do really love this game, but these are the reasons we have quit playing in the past. Fixing these issues would make the game more enjoyable and less frustrating.
Us encanto y la verdad es que es un juego que te da ganas de no dejar de jugarlo nunca.
We have been playing world chef for years. We recently (Last month of May 2025) started playing again after a few years of not being active at all on it. We have to be honest, the game was better back then. Now there are major glitches, longer wait times and fewer opportunities to advanced in the game (ie; gems, tasks, supplies). Im a sucker so we still play the game regardless but we really hope they hear the feedback and make changes. Id hate to see the game go but thats just what happens sometimes:) but honestly it would be a 5star game.
The feature to connect and add our Facebook friends went away. We couldnt get any help with our orders or help with the vineyard. Our daughter said that she was having issues with her account also. We have played this game for years! We were on level 43! Finally sent our last complaint in the chat support today. They said that due to not enough bandwidth, they could no longer provide support for this game and gave suggestions of other games to play. Wow. See ya later World Chef. #AppDeleted.
This game is so addicting, its our absolute favorite. However, we remember there used to be events where you could work towards unlocking new chefs and that disappeared which was very disheartening because it was such a good addition to the game. Another thing, recently, our SOS button stopped working when it helped so much before. We hope you can fix these things because we really really enjoy playing the game and have gotten so many of our friends hooked as well.
It says that to get lobster Im supposed to go to the dock, when we get there we only see the crates to get avocado and the hook to get the fish, we dont know if thats a bug or if we need to do something to get lobster.
We love the game but the most frustrating thing is whenever you see something being sold on the marketplace that you really need and you click it but its not even there. It takes you to the sellers account and that item isnt there, not even marked as sold or anything its just not there. One time we reloaded the game and it worked and we could buy it but every other time it just sits there taunting us. Sometimes you click the item and it takes you to the players restaurant and their marketplace isnt even built and theyre on the lowest level. Please fix this because its frustrating.
Anyone else having an issue using the SOS above the tables? No matter how many times we click on that SOS button to ask for assists with a dish on a table it never works. Its very frustrating. Ive tried dragging the dishes to the the table to await the ASSIST button however that button never pops up it just says how many diamonds are needed to feed that table. Its very frustrating seeing other players using SOS mode and Im helping everyone we can but we can never request it ourselves. Sad.
The game is the best chef game we have found you can restock be the manager and cook and serve all the above.
Ive always enjoyed playing world chef, it delivers the message of culture and unity. A great game to play for those that like to be consistent. We are disappointed they stopped continuing the game and that there are a few bugs because of that but overall a good game.
The newest update is cool but we got a dish that our customers want but we dont have an ingredient we need lobster and we cant get it because we dont have the fishing material to get it. If you can try to fix this that would be great. Other than that this game is amazing we love we totally recommend this to anyone. We enjoy the variety of the food that chefs can make.
We have played this game before and end up coming back each time.
We love this game so much play it everyday but we hate how it glitches a lot and sometimes shuts down and crashes. We also dont like how our game has glitched to where it unlocked everything food etc when before we hadnt unlocked it. So its kinda frustrating because Im only on level 42 yet we have every food and item unlocked.
Ive been playing this game for years and years but we are really thrown off by the latest change and update of UI. Im not sure why youd do this but it seems like the order of every dish is moved around. We used to know where everything was but how Im just making dishes on accident cause everything is flipped. It doesnt make any sense.
We cant request help at our tables so we tried to delete the game and redownload and now Im getting higher level orders than what we are from tables because it unlocked recipes, along with all of our dishes and items in the shop being mixed around and in backwards order.
This was our favorite game ever but we stopped playing for a bit and when we went to play it recently it just gives us a message saying Game cannot be found and doesnt let us play or press anything. Ive tried everything and the message wont go away. PLSS HELP we REALLY WANT TO PLAY WORLD CHEF.
We believe the game is so much fun and definitely time consuming!!! There are certain fixes that could enhance the game play such as the costumers dialogue and how it makes sense, for example we shouldve gotten what shes having when no one in the restaurant has food. The characters could be changed so theres more diversity!!! The market place sometimes shows items for sale and when we click to buy the item its not actually selling anymore or is no longer shown when we move to their property. If we were to personally change something is to allow food to have shorter cooking time like the player can get items along the way or create a school to allow the chefs to cook their food quicker. These requests arent necessary but would enhance the game much more. We appreciate this game and we enjoy the game every day but would like to see improvements/updates soon.
We have been playing this game (on and off) since about 2016 and it truly holds a special place in our heart. Its very sad to see the game not being cared for and we would love if more support came, even though its unlikely. We would totally recommend playing because it is very fun.
Latest update caused issues with SOS and following. Asking for SOS help is no longer an option. Following players information (name and level) disappeared.
Could you please have the chef not pop up every two freaking seconds and tell us what to do we clearly can figure it out and Im pretty sure your other players can figure it out. Please have there be a way to turn off the stupid chef telling us exactly what to do when they do it when the stupid table is done we dont need that information. We can clearly see that through our eyeball.
Good game . Been this game for a while. But with the recent update the game wouldnt stay open.
So much fun! Just wish we didnt have to wait so long for more advanced dishes.
Game crashing every few seconds ever since the update.
It's a great game, but we suddenly started getting this bug where it would kick us out of the game every time we try to open the social market. Please fix this.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.4.0
- Size: 194.34 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Socialpoint
Last updated: 25th October 2025 | Genre: Family, Simulation | Developer: Socialpoint